Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Over 40 Years of Growing Gardens and Gardeners
Learn how Doug Tallamy urges citizen scientists everywhere – even those with just a few pots on their balcony or patio – to embrace the concept of the Homegrown National Park as a way to commit to everyday, small-scale, and neighborhood-based biodiversity restoration.
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Native to the eastern United States, Spotted Beebalm inhabits dry prairies and sandy areas. This showy plant with tubular flowers, colorful bracts, and a stacked, whorled appearance provides interesting form and texture to gardens and attracts a variety of pollinators and beneficial insects.
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have created a new series of short videos about locally invasive plants and native alternatives. This series looks at individual invasive plants, discussing how to remove them and suggesting native plants to consider as replacements. This month's post is on Chinese Silver Grass (Miscanthus sinensis).
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Golden sprays of flowers brighten gardens and natural habitats across the Mid-Atlantic Region from late summer to frost, supporting 115 species of pollinators—moths, butterflies, native bees... The cultivar ‘Fireworks’ is more compact, easier to contain, and flowers more vigorously than the species.
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have created a new series of short videos about locally invasive plants and native alternatives. This series looks at individual invasive plants, discussing how to remove them and suggesting native plants to consider as replacements. This month's post is on Porcelainberry, (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata).
The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have created a new series of short videos about locally invasive plants and native alternatives. This series looks at individual invasive plants, discussing how to remove them and suggesting native plants to consider as replacements. This month's post is on Bush Honeysuckle, Lonicera spp.
